Why Meat Rabbits are Better than Chickens for Meat 

Awesome information thank you. Now I just need to learn how to raise rabbits in a cold environment.

I'm sorry about the blur in the video. Trying to fix it!

I am convinced, time to learn how to raise rabbits!

You could try quail instead of chickens. The Coturnix quailcan lay up to 300 egged a year. You can hatch them out or just eat the eggs. Just a thought

Great video! I keep NZ rabbits and a trio of egg chickens in suburbia. My chickens are on deep litter and my rabbits in hutches. I breed three times a year and my does typically have between 10-14 kits. A loss of one is usual, typically the runt. When my chickens pass, I will keep quail for eggs and meat. A lot quieter. You can dress out a quail for the table in 5 minutes and a bag of feed, if the quail are on grass will last a flock of 10 a year. Rabbits and quail will mean good variety. I’ve kept meat chickens with basic equipment, scalding in a bucket of water and hand plucking. I think they are expensive to raise and a bit gross. I’min South Eastern Australia, so heat is a real issue and I can only breed throughout the colour months. I have tried in the Summer, but I loose a third of the kits and it’s really tough on the kits and Does. Rabbits mean I keep a closed loop for my garden in fertiliser.

So much good info. Thanks for sharing.

I love your videos!!!!! I love to see you talking about your rabbits. I can hear how you love your rabbits and taking care of them. I’ve already watched this video to the end and started it over.

Outstanding video! Thank you!

Ive watched some of your videos for a bit over a year now. Your really getting to be a pro. One thing you didnt mention was marketing the hides from your rabbits. I expect they would sell pretty good if processed properly. Of course you could use them in craft projects as well

If you want to increase the size of your newborn rabbits, all you need to do is get a buck or a doe, a New Zealand or a Californian, and cross it with one of your Silver Foxes, that will produce a hybrid (F1), which will grow faster and bigger than any Silver Fox rabbit you have ever raised, and if it is strictly of meat, then you don't have to worry about it being a hybrid.

Just at the point of choosing between rabbits and meat chickens, so your video caught my attention.

I completely agree. We used to raise chickens for meat, but we didn't enjoy the process very much. While the meat was good, dealing with the chickens was quite a headache. We've found that raising rabbits has been much better for us. Specifically, we raise American Chinchillas for meat and also make a good income from selling them. Additionally, we have excellent growouts. We do raise Muscovys for meat but they obviously take longer to get up to size to process but the meat is worth it.

I finally got a Dutch buck and a beautiful black Mini-Rex doe! I'm so excited! And scratched .....

I want to do a garden for rabbits. When I look for videos on this, it’s just how to keep rabbits out of the garden. Do you have a list of plants that are okay for rabbits to eat? I would also like to be able to store some for winter. Any info would be awesome! Thank you in advance.

Chickens taste better and (for us) grow faster ... but ... can't ignore that processing time. We don't have a plucker so it takes 30-40 minutes to process one. I can do 6 Rabbit in that same amount of time. Better than Chicken are Muscovy and Geese. We dont even have to feed those guys. They hang with the native Canada & Mallard and forage/free-range 100٪.

I have better luck keeping chickens alive than I do rabbits. My grow-outs get poopy butt and die. Lost all but 2 of the last 12. However, I am attempting to produce my own chicks, and the hatch rate has been appalling!!

nutrition. Fat is not a bad thing, in fact you will die without it.... so best to keep that clear.

Do you make pets of all of them or just your breeding does?

Do you have a plan for your hatch ?

Lower fat is a way in which rabbits are less nutritious than chickens

Do you ever sell your rabbits to help someone else get established? If I was close to you I would want to buy yours. But I live in Oklahoma. Also can you tell me about that machine you use to suck the air out of the package to freeze your meat?

Without watching - Rabbits are easy to sustain and breed like, well, rabbits. The downside is, if you hit hard times, you can give yourself protein poisoning if you relied solely on rabbits for food. It's too lean. You don't have that problem with chickens. If you're a prepper and doing this for a food source, be aware. If you're just supplementing your diet, great.